NETSCOUT Demonstrates Service Assurance Capabilities for Broadband
Service with Virtual Central Office

WESTFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NETSCOUT
SYSTEMS, INC., (NASDAQ:NTCT), a leading provider of business
assurance, a powerful combination of service assurance, cybersecurity,
and business intelligence solutions, today announced its participation
in the Open Platform for NFV (OPNFV) Summit in Beijing, China. At this
major industry event, NETSCOUT will demonstrate its powerful end-to-end
service assurance capabilities for a broadband service hosted at
Virtualized Central Office (vCO) in collaboration with a range of OPNFV
members. The Summit provides an opportunity to reach the innovative
communities, developers and companies transforming the networking
industry through open source NFV.

“We are pleased to collaborate with our OPNFV colleagues to showcase a
virtualized broadband central office environment to telecommunications
service providers with an architecture that has compelling capabilities
and flexibility for serving residential and business customers,” stated
Dr. Vikram Saksena, chief solutions architect, NETSCOUT. “The dynamic
nature of NFV makes it challenging to assure the user experience as
services are created and delivered on demand. Service providers want to
take advantage of the agility and elasticity offered by the NFV
environment while maintaining and enhancing the user experience.
NETSCOUT’s vSTREAM™
and InfiniStreamNG™
virtualized products provide correlated, end-to-end visibility into
service layer performance through packet data analysis of the traffic
flowing across the network, which is absolutely critical to successful
NFV deployments.”

NETSCOUT’s virtualized service assurance solutions will be demonstrated
as part of the OPNFV community demo at the OPNFV summit in Beijing at
the “Virtualized Central Office - A Different Approach Using ODL”
presentation on Wednesday, June 14, 2017.

“NETSCOUT and the other community members really stepped up for a
collaboration that shows how we can integrate the technologies and
concepts we’ve been using in the data center for the CO and set the
stage for further open source evolution of NFV,” said Heather Kirksey,
director, OPNFV. “The service assurance element from NETSCOUT provides a
critical end-to-end user experience visibility required by service
providers to better understand the function and potential of their NFV
deployments.”

About the Open Platform for NFV (OPNFV)

Open Platform for NFV (OPNFV) facilitates the development and evolution
of NFV components across various open source ecosystems. Through system
level integration, deployment and testing, OPNFV creates a reference NFV
platform to accelerate the transformation of enterprise and service
provider networks. For more information, please visit http://www.opnfv.org.

OPNFV is Collaborative Project at the Linux Foundation. Linux Foundation
Collaborative Projects are independently funded software projects that
harness the power of collaborative development to fuel innovation across
industries and ecosystems. www.linuxfoundation.org.

About NETSCOUT

NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC. (NASDAQ: NTCT) is a leading provider of business
assurance – a powerful combination of service assurance, cybersecurity,
and business intelligence solutions – for today’s most demanding service
provider, enterprise and government networks. NETSCOUT’s Adaptive
Service Intelligence (ASI) technology continuously monitors the service
delivery environment to identify performance issues and provides insight
into network-based security threats, helping teams to quickly resolve
issues that can cause business disruptions or impact user experience.
NETSCOUT delivers unmatched service visibility and protects the digital
infrastructure that supports our connected world. To learn more, visit www.netscout.com
or follow @NETSCOUT on Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn.